“The optimists believe defeat is just a temporary setback.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“For optimists, defeat is a challenge, a mere setback on the road to inevitable victory.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Do you think it's a good idea?" Awful question! Here’s the thing: only the market can tell if your idea is good. Everything else is just opinion. Unless you’re talking to a deep industry expert, this is self-indulgent noise with a high risk of false positives.”
― The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
― The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
“This crisis and its resolution shaped their explanatory style for bad events, making it temporary, specific, and external.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.”
― The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
― The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
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